Film Composer Quotes

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

— Ramin Djawadi

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

— Adrian Younge

I think of myself as a film composer.

— John Williams

I was always trying to be a quote, unquote, film composer.

— Henry Mancini

I'm not a script composer. I'm a film composer and my brain is excited by images and moving elements.

— Alexandre Desplat

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

— Daniel Handler

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

— Carter Burwell

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he…

— Park Chan-wook

I would love to do more superhero work; as a young film composer, that is one of the things you dream of.

— Ludwig Goransson

With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting.

— Amaal Mallik

I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It's probably the best…

— Ludwig Goransson

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a…

— Stanley Clarke

My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a…

— Alexandre Desplat

Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even…

— Dr. Luke

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La…

— Alexandre Desplat

I remember when I saw 'King's Speech' or 'Girl With the Pearl Earring;' there are moments in my life where I was…

— Alexandre Desplat

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening…

— James Newton Howard

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up…

— Adrian Younge

If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what…

— Henry Jackman

I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie…

— Alexandre Desplat

Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,…

— John Keltonic

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that…

— James Newton Howard

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working…

— Joseph Trapanese

“Like all great works, it manages to be great without trying to be brilliant. It just is, and effortlessly so. . .…

— Milo Behr

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would…

— Danny Elfman

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he…

— Danny Elfman